* las <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 28 Aug 2000
| What when you say CD-DA, you are speaking about commercial CDs. Is that
| correct? What limitations do you personally find in commercial CDs?
When I say CD-DA I mean CD-DA, as opposed to CD-ROM, CD-V, VCD, CDi, and
the many other applications of the compact disc.
| So your saying that as long as the Logo DVD is not on it, anyone could
| produce a DVD and not have to pay any licensing fees what so ever?
That is about the size of it. Like I said, look at DivX.
| The term and Logo DVD is something that is copyrighted.
Trademarked, actually. Copyright is a totally non-relevant area of law
(except in regards to copyright ownership of the specification documents).
| From everything you have said, accepting for the moment that you are
| correct, the technology used to make DVDs could be used to produce MDs of
| extremely long length. It would seem to me that the quality of a "DVD"
| type MD would be superior to the present ATRAC MD.
One does not follow from the other. You can put whatever you want on a
DVD, just as you can put whatever you want on a CD. This hypothetical
Mini-DVD could be Sony ATRAC 4 on a 2.5" DVD. It could be CD-DA on a 2.5"
DVD. It could be up to 24-bit linear PCM at up to 96Khz on a 2.5" DVD. It
could be MPEG-1 Layer III on a 2.5" DVD. It could be DVD-Audio on a 2.5"
DVD. Or it could be something else entirely. The underlying medium has no
effect whatsoever on the audio quality of what is stored upon it.
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